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The Nuckelavee · Hellripper

EXERCISE 32 OF 121
Groove S
141 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 121 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AL
PART AL
PART O
PART AL
PART O
PART S20
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBOALUP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Nuckelavee on drums

267 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-70, toms through bars 71-72, hi-hat through bars 73-79, toms through bars 80-81, hi-hat through bars 82-101 and snare through bars 102-105, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 10-15 and 18-20, and 10 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
The Nuckelavee -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

32 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 16, 21, 23 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-244 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-178 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Nuckelavee?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Nuckelavee hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Nuckelavee?

32 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 16, 21, 23 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED